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-- By DesireeMoshayedi - 09 Apr 2021

Rat and Scientist

A rat lives in a maze with several other rats. She watches the other rats run around the maze, completing various useless tasks for a small reward, a treat just big enough to hold over their hunger until they complete their next task. She wonders whether they can see the scientists above them. Whenever she can, she watches the scientists, envious of their freedom. She prays of a day she can become a scientist and free all the other rats from their life of imprisonment and perpetual labor.

By a stroke of luck, her wish is granted. She stands above the maze in a white coat and discovers the difficulty of her stated mission. The maze contains a transparent padlocked lid and only the senior scientist contains the passcode. Opening up the cage would get her fired. With her binary understanding of the world, she knows only of rat and scientist and fears that the word “fired” would put her back in the maze. On top of it, she’s beginning to like her coworkers, the pay is good, and the project is interesting. She understands her life to destined to either being oppressed or being the oppressor, and the possibility that she can risk it all for nothing leads her to reluctantly choose to imprison rats for a living.

Public Interest and Big Law

Existing in an Unjust Society

Binary Fallacy

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